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Unitext For Freshmen: Logic and Critical Thinking
by Susan Wilson
ISBN: 9789389441007
Year: 2020
Binding: HARDBACK
Price: £ 125.00
Logic and Critical Thinking is a very important topic that needs to be taught in the universities, for the
development of the cognitive abilities of the students. It helps equip them with the necessary skills for
di erent types of problems that they may encounter in their professional careers.
Developing logic helps students know in-depth the meaning of various tasks in a better way while understanding
and interpreting the various tasks assigned to them in a more structured and logical way, at their
future workplaces. It is also crucial that they think about these arguments or set of instructions in a critical
way and that they can exactly know what a certain set of instructions or sentences, imply.
The course incorporating ‘Logic and Critical Thinking’, is a must in the universities across the world. The
universities are increasingly becoming more aware about the importance of a logical mindset and
approach in the professional world and have started to change their curriculum to incorporate the lessons
on logical and critical thinking approaches. This has been done keeping in mind the bene ts for students
in terms of their logical ability, and their expected contribution to society and economy.
Logic and Critical Thinking focuses on making the students aware about the concept of logic and explain
them the role of philosophy in developing logic for a given subject. It makes them aware about the various
elds pertaining to logic and its application. The students get to know about Metaphysics, Epistemology
and Axiology and how logic is incorporated into them.
This part of the curriculum informs the students about the various kinds of logic and the manner in which
an argument is constructed. It explains them the role of those parts in deciding whether an argument is
valid or not. The students are further informed about the meaning of various terms and narrated the
relevance of those terms to the concept of logic.
Going further, the students are explained the concept of critical thinking and they are informed about the
various aspects of critical thinkers that make them think about those subjects in a logical way and be able
to reason the happening of such a thing in an explainable way. The students are also explained about the
various principles of good argument and told about the bene ts of critical thinking.
There may be some fallacies in the arguments that are supposed to be logically deduced and the students
need to know that such things exist in the arguments. The course involving logical and critical thinking
makes students aware about the concept of fallacies and its various types.
It also informs them about the fallacies that may pertain to di erent aspects of an argument. The students
get informed about the various categorical propositions and their attributes. They are also informed about
the way in which immediate inference from the arguments may be evaluated.
This reading material answers the immediate needs of the students in terms of nding answers to the
manner in which logical solutions may be found to the problems they may face. This material can be very
instrumental in providing the instructors with any knowledge they maybe requiring to enhance their skills
and understanding of the subject.
With this course material, the writers intend to enlighten the readers, especially the students with the
knowledge on Logic and Critical Thinking, as they believe that this skill has a lot to do with the application
of knowledge and understanding their professional as well as personal endeavors. All the positive criticism
and constructive feedback on the content and material of this, are most welcome.
Susan Wilson pursued her Doctorate of Philosophy in Humanities and Social Science from Public Research University, Iceland. She is assistant professor at Abbey University, Clitheroe. Wilson has authored and edited more than 55 articles, papers and book chapters in the field of philosophy, political sciences, sociology and demography. She is actively engaged in the researches focused on anthropology, modern teaching methods and educational psychology. She has 13 years of teaching experience in the field of social sciences. She is also among very few, who has done several field surveys and logical research on social structure of society.
